theme,context,created_at,provenance,updated_at,reviewed_on,comments,text,id,dictionary,work_id,metaphor
"",§312,2005-11-25 00:00:00 UTC,"Reading Elaine Scarry's The Body in Pain. New York and Oxford: OUP, 1985. p. 11.",2009-09-14 19:48:06 UTC,2009-07-10,"â€¢Scarry writes, ""In the isolation of pain, even the most uncompromising advocate of individualism might suddenly prefer a realm populated by companions, however imaginary and safely subordinate"" (11). ","My Dog. I have given a name to my pain, and call it ""a dog,""--it is just as faithful, just as importunate and shameless, just as entertaining, just as wise, as any other dog--and I can domineer over it, and vent my bad humor on it, as others do with their dogs, servants, and wives.",16825,"",6360,"""I have given a name to my pain, and call it 'a dog,'--it is just as faithful, just as importunate and shameless, just as entertaining, just as wise, as any other dog--and I can domineer over it, and vent my bad humor on it, as others do with their dogs, servants, and wives."""
"",Of the Despisers of Bodies,2007-06-14 00:00:00 UTC,"Reading Daniel Dennett's review of Antonio R. Damasio's Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, 1994. In the Times Literary Supplement, August 25, 1995, pp. 3-4.",2009-09-14 19:48:37 UTC,,"• I've included thrice: Body, War, Herd","'I am body and soul'--so speaks the child. And why should one not speak like children?
But the awakened, the enlightened man says: I am body entirely, and nothing beside; and soul is only a word for something in the body.
The body is a great intelligence, a multiplicity with one sense, a war and a peace, a herd and a herdsman.
Your little intelligence, my brother, which you call 'spirit', is also an instrument of your body, a little instrument and toy of your great intelligence.
(pp. 61-2)",16983,"",6429,"""The body is a great intelligence, a multiplicity with one sense, a war and a peace, a herd and a herdsman."""
"","",2007-06-14 00:00:00 UTC,"Reading Daniel Dennett's review of Antonio R. Damasio's Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, 1994. In the Times Literary Supplement, August 25, 1995, pp. 3-4.",2009-09-14 19:48:38 UTC,,"","Sense and spirit are instruments and toys: behind them still lies the Self. The Self seeks with the eyes of the sense, it listens too with the ears of the spirit.
The Self is always listening and seeking: it compares, subdues, conquers, destroys. It rules and is also the Ego's ruler.
Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, stands a mighty commander, and unknown sage--he is called Self. He lives in your body, he is your body.
(p. 2)",16986,"",6429,"""Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, stands a mighty commander, and unknown sage--he is called Self. He lives in your body, he is your body."""
"","",2018-05-09 14:00:56 UTC,"Reading Gordon Marino's ""The Upside of Envy,"" in The New York Times (May 4, 2018). <Link to NYTimes.com>",2018-05-09 14:03:06 UTC,,"Google Translate gives ""pubic parts"" for Schamtheile.","503
Neid und Eifersucht. -- Neid und Eifersucht sind die Schamtheile der menschlichen Seele. Die Vergleichung kann vielleicht fortgesetzt werden.

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Envy and jealously. -- Envy and jealousy are the privy [pubic] parts of the human soul. The comparison can perhaps be extended.
(p. 181)]",25195,"",8280,"""Neid und Eifersucht sind die Schamtheile der menschlichen Seele [Envy and jealousy are the privy parts of the human soul]."" "